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INTEREST: Shōnen Jump Authors Comment on Bleach Ending

anddo! wrote:

Why didn't Kishimoto comment?

he will say " thank you for ending your manga as bad as mine so i don't feel lonely"

even though I still think naruto ending is worst one .

lol at gintama comment

What happened to Bleach is Kubo's own pacing issues that have existed for years. Years ago he grew used to dragging out the series, partly by having relatively low content chapters. By "low content" what I mean is that he grew used to using much larger panels. He'd take a third of a page for something that could have been done in a small panel. Half a page for something that could have easily been done in a quarter or a third of the page. A full page for something that could have been done in half a page. A two page spread for something that could have easily been just a single page. The result is that the events ended up taking significantly more pages to show. This bit Kubo on the butt in the final arc. A lot of the fights that people complain were pointless were clearly designed to show off various characters shikais and bankais, and provide cause to show various backstories that Kubo had come up with. The problem is that Kubo never managed to pick up the pacing. Fights kept taking chapters and chapters, going past a month when they could have been done in 2-3 weeks easily. Then as the months rolled by, Kubo eventually came up against the deadline he'd known about for a while, with too much left to do, and too little time to do it. So he tried to cram in a few last things, before throwing together something for the climax, and skipping to the epilogue he'd had planned out.

All in all, the rush is on Kubo, not his editors.

You guys should leave Kubo alone and stop acting like you know what happened behind the scenes, he still wrote a better last arc then Kishimoto

theNightster wrote:

You guys should leave Kubo alone and stop acting like you know what happened behind the scenes, he still wrote a better last arc then Kishimoto

Until someone who actually knows what happened behind the scenes comes out and says something, then all we can do is speculate. If I had the time or patience, I honestly think it would be funny if I did a YouTube video in an Angry Video Game Nerd style where I appear in front of the camera and talk about how much of a train wreck Bleach turned out to be and point out its flaws. I imagine by the end of the video that I would take a copy of a manga volume, bite down into it, ripping apart the cover, and continue to beat the crap out of it, then maybe take a fake bowel movement on it for comedic effect?

What I don't understand is if Kubo really was aware of his upcoming deadline, then why did he waste so much time on the fight with Gerard Valkyrie?

That was part of him cramming in a few last things. Several characters that hadn't done anything get to do something, a last few bankai shown off, etc. It taking so long was a function of the same panel problem that drove the series general pacing problems.

You guys should leave Kubo alone and stop acting like you know what happened behind the scenes, he still wrote a better last arc then Kishimoto

I would throw a shurikken at a Naruto volume and then spit alcohol and light it on fire via fake Sony Vegas effects but that's because I found Naruto to be much more frustrating to read. Some may call Bleach out on ass pulls but these same people think Naruto is consistent even though that series did the same thing except ten times worse.

GrayArchon wrote:

That was part of him cramming in a few last things. Several characters that hadn't done anything get to do something, a last few bankai shown off, etc. It taking so long was a function of the same panel problem that drove the series general pacing problems.

I love how in the 2nd to last chapter, we get a bit of fluff between some of the Gotei 13 with Hisagi spouting about his Bankai that we never got to see.

Hisagi: I do have a Bankai! I really do! That damn Kubo just never let me show it off, that's all!

How was the final arc of Bleach in anyway better than Naruto......and why are we comparing and contrasting the endings when they were handled completely differently from one another?

.....I know of very few people who're are gentle regarding their criticisms of Naruto's second half. Secondly whatever you thought Naruto did that was ten times worse than what Bleach did is purely subjective.